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SAFE FROM THE STORM: A 2007 severe weather special by WTMJ 4 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some events featured include the July 1996 Oakfield F5 tornado and August 2005 Stoughton tornado, among other stories, severe weather safety tips and shameless station Doppler radar promotion.
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SAFE FROM THE STORM: A 2007 severe weather special by WTMJ 4 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some events featured include the July 1996 Oakfield F5 tornado and August 2005 Stoughton tornado, among other stories, severe weather safety tips and shameless station Doppler radar promotion.
© WTMJ 4 All Rights Reserved




![Tornado Alley [1997] The History Channel, Documentary
Tornado Alley [1997] Part of the Wrath of God documentary series, this production features several historical United States tornado events that transpired in the 19th and 20th centuries with stories primarily focused around the March 18, 1925 tri-state tornado in southern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. Eyewitnesses and survivors recount that event in original interviews in one of the last broadcast productions to present such original stories. At times the program takes visual liberties with stock tornado video and photos that are completely unrelated to actual events, incorporated for dramatic effect. Produced by Towers Productions for The History Channel, Tornado Alley aired during the peak of a tornado program boom for cable and television networks in the later part of the 1990s and was eventually marketed by A&E Home Video. This is remastered from an original production videotape and presented in high definition.
Additional information on the March 18, 1925 tri-state tornado: https://www.weather.gov/pah/1925Tornado_ss
Video © 1996, 1997 Towers Productions, The History Channel, All Rights Reserved. Tornado Alley [1997] The History Channel, Documentary](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dX4p5ATd6UA/mqdefault.jpg)





![Storm Chasing on Television in 1996
May 1996: Storm chasing as a subject is swept up into a media whirlwind to coincide with the theatrical release of the motion picture Twister along with two other made for television movies around the same time, the FOX television networks Tornado and Night of the Twisters which premiered on The Family Channel a month earlier. All of compounded on the heels of a US government funded two season field project called VORTEX [Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment] that spring loaded a next generation of meteorologists, storm chasers and weather enthusiasts,
This complication of storm chase related news media recorded off-air at the time consists of various national and local news affiliates from the Kansas City region combined with CNNs Talk Back LIVE a call in program that merged audience interaction, early internet e-mail and video chat. The original tape was donated to the Storm Chasing Anthology documentary project and is presented here once again for historical posterity.
Watch the Storm Chasing Anthology, Volume One:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kS3p3wpQgk Storm Chasing on Television in 1996](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/giN1cCyxvQw/mqdefault.jpg)